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Flower coloration

7 years ago

Hey citrus folk,


Question about varieties and coloration of flower buds. Are NZL buds pure white or tinged with purple? Does that vary at all with conditions?


Backstory: I've got a NZL that I got last spring from Stan. It's a bit of an odd shape where several branches come out of one spot and I can't quite figure out where the graft is. Last spring it pushed several new shoots from that same place, and according to advice here, I pruned one of them to allow more room for the others. At that time I grafted the pruned shoot to something else and it took. (Graft 1)


Fast forward 8 months or more, the new shoots that remained were very vigorous and I pruned the top of one, for shape. I cut the pruned twig into two and grafted those as well, and they took too. (Graft 2 and 3)


Graft 1 put out flowers, and they were tinged with purple-pink like my Meyer is. Graft 2 and 3 put out flowers, and they were pure white. Both had a nice citrus smell when up close. Graft 1 and of the other two are onto the same rootstock.


I can't figure out if I've got more than one kind of branch on this tree, and if so, which are NZL. The leaves look the same. A couple branches have a few short thorns, but I know thorns can be variable. I'd really like to figure it out so I can remove the non-NZLs as soon as possible.


Thoughts?



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